Heliconoides inflata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliconoidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Limacinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Limacinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Limacinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
31 occurrences of Heliconoides inflata on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
31 occurrences- Oligocene3%
- Miocene74%
- Pliocene19%
- Pleistocene3%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group2
- Falun de Saucats Formation2
- Red Bluff Formation1
- Falun de Sainte-Avit Formation1
- Saint-Avit Formation1
- Cercado Formation1
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The named rock units Heliconoides inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliconoides inflata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heliconoides inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
423 taxa- Vaginella depressa9 sites
- Limacina valvatina6 sites
- Limacina bulimoides5 sites
- Callista3 sites
- Coralliophila3 sites
- Cuvierina paronai3 sites
- Ireneia nieulandei3 sites
- Pitar3 sites
- Pocillopora madreporacea3 sites
- Styliola subula3 sites
- Acropora exarata2 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Amalda obsoleta2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Atlanta2 sites
- Aturia aturi2 sites
- Bowdenatheca jamaicensis2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Caulastrea matheroni2 sites
- Cavolinia marginata2 sites
- Chama gryphoides2 sites
- Chelonia girundica2 sites
- Chione2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Heliconoides inflata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
8 references- Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France22
- Holoplanktonic molluscan assemblages (Gastropoda, Heteropoda, Thecosomata) from the Pliocene of Estepona (Spain, Málaga)3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Early Pliocene heteropods and pteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from SantaMaria Island (Azores, Portugal): systematics and biostratigraphic implications1
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata)1
- Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata) from the Pliocene Bowden Beds, Jamaica. In: Donovan, S.K. (ed.). The Pliocene Bowden shell bed, southeast Jamaica1
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 31 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Heliconoides inflata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- vckoca
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Heliconoides inflata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Orbigny 1836)